00:02An interstate non-for-profit chasing goals which have eluded successive Northern Territory
00:07governments.
00:08Breaking the cycle of re-offending, having those employees out there available for people
00:13to work and to help those prisoners transition out of prison into community life.
00:18Today the government announcing WorkSkill Australia will from this month in Darwin and
00:23July in Alice Springs provide job training and life skills on both sides of the NT's
00:29prison walls.
00:30WorkSkill provides that next linkage back into community with that sustained case management,
00:35keeping people on track and providing a safety net of support back into a series of services
00:41across the whole Northern Territory.
00:43The $2.3 million contract is for a two year trial, aiming to support up to 800 ex-prisoners
00:50in the months before and after their release, the provider taking some credit for Australia's
00:55lowest rate of re-offending in South Australia.
00:58DEVELOPING THAT RELATIONSHIP WHILE IN PRISON WITH PRISONERS AND THEN HAVING THAT TRUSTED RELATIONSHIP
01:04WHILE THEY EXIT IS VERY MEANINGFUL AND MATERIAL FOR PEOPLE TO STAY IN THIS VOLUNTARY PROGRAM.
01:10FOR EVERY 10 PEOPLE RELEASED FROM THE NORTHERN TERRITORY PRISON IN 2021, SIX WERE BACK INSIDE WITHIN
01:17TWO YEARS.
01:18THAT'S AUSTRALIA'S HIGHEST RATE OF RE-OFFENDING, INCREASING 20 PERCENT SINCE 2001.
01:24WORK SKILL SAYS IT WILL HELP EX-PRISONERS DEAL WITH POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS AND WON'T BE DETERED
01:30IF THEY DON'T STAY IN THE JOB.
01:32SO THEY MIGHT FALL OUT OF WORK, WE GO AGAIN AND WE KEEP GOING TILL THEY STICK WITH IT.
01:37RENEWED EFFORT TOWARDS A FUNCTIONAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.
01:38RENEWED EFFORT TOWARDS A FUNCTIONAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.
01:44RENEWED EFFORT TOWARDS A FUNCTIONAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.
01:45GOING TOWARDS A FUNCTIONAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.
01:46Hأن'S A FUNCTIONAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.
01:46RE-0000 SOMETHING LANE.
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